Talk:Christian views on contraception/to do

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : A more comprehensive Intro section; all uncited assertions need to be referenced Cleanup : as needed Copyedit : as needed Expand : These sections: Christian_views_on_contraception#Background and Christian_views_on_contraception#External_links; others as deemed fitting NPOV : is it? Other : Add a section on the views of Eastern Orthodoxy. One source is "Does Orthodoxy Allow Contraception Or Not?"

Roman Catholic: current view

At the end of the "Current View" section of, "Roman Catholic Church", I have added: “For an anthropological (non-religious) evaluation of the effect of contraception on marital love, see C. Burke: "Married Love and Contraception" Osservatore Romano Oct. 10, 1988"I think it would be helpful to add indirect web-reference, e.g. “(this can be consulted at www.cormacburke.or.ke)”, or a direct link. My reasons are as follows: 1) The article is by a well-known canonist-theologian. It is original in that it does not argue from any religious premises but simply weighs in exclusively human terms the effect of contraception on married love. 2) The Osservatore Romano as the official Vatican newspaper, is well-known to be very selective in what it chooses to publish. Publication there (especially on a controverted theme) is a clear indication that the article in question is considered to make some new contribution to more better articulating the Catholic viewpoint (the newness in this article consists mo doubt in its anthropological and not theological analysis). The Vatican website does not carry Osservatore Romano articles, so we are dealing with something of interest which the average reader cannot access except through Burke's website. There is a special reason why I bring this up for discussion here. My admiration for Wikipedia had been growing; and some ten weeks ago I put in a few contributions - including some references to articles by Cormac Burke, a former Judge of the Roman Rota (the High Court of the Catholic Church) with a lot of publications in both the canonical and the theological fields (many available only on his website: cormacburke.or.ke). Ilkali jumped on this as spamming (see my Talk Page) and deleted the lot. Maybe my initial inserting was inept (being new at the process); but I denied and deny there was any intention of spamming, that is, of linking for REASONS OTHER THAN MERIT. With lkali, and then with Jaysweet who seemed to take over, I tried to have the MERIT of the articles debated, especially the two outstanding ones: on Concupiscence and this one on Contraception. Over two months, they have evaded even a minimal debate. Neither has taken the trouble to read the article (cf. Jaysweet's last, where he thinks it is a book). Jaysweet says his stance is simply an exercise of necessary editorial control. I can only regard it as thought control or deliberate censorship. I am informing Jaysweet of this. If any other editor objects to the insertion I have made, and further to the idea of linking, I would ask him or her to produce reasoned arguments a) why the article cannot be regarded as having any merit as a contribution to this debated question, and b) why one does not want to facilitate reference through linking to it.Finisklin (talk) 15:32, 20 July 2008 (UTC)